Word: babbit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prize is given by playwright Robert Anderson in memory of his wife. Judges this year were Harry T. Levin, Irving Babbit Professor of Comparative Literature, Cedric Whitman, Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature, and David Wheeler, director of the Theatre Company of Boston...
banks of hardies, the forging beds, the babbit ladles...
...confrontation indignation ebbs. Watch that anti-authoritarian hang-up, man. These aren't the days of Babbit, you know. Things have changed. Business is ghetto-bound and groovy and so forth. New managerial elite. They don't discriminate, and if they do, they're sure not going to tell you about it. These are politically sensitive times, after all. By 1970, half the nation under 25, you're a valuable commodity. You know, he's probably going to offer you the job right there. He's going to say you're a nice Jewish boy, just what we've been...
Harry T. Levin '33, Irving Babbit Professor of Comparative Literature, lecturer in English 123, will be on sabbatical for the entire year to lecture at the University of Indiana and Churchill College, Cambridge...
Conversely, to violate the limits of the ordinary Babbit, to act and react uniquely, is evidence of the uniqueness of self. An act to prove you are there, not logged in the monolithic square morass. In On the Road, incidents and factual details are piled on top of one another in the desperate insistence that something happened. In company the hot beats are forever retelling and reminiscing: "Member that time back in . . .?" The most insignificant tripe is described as "crazy," "exciting," "the greatest...